Best part of it was that it's not particularly gory: It's a made-for-TV movie, but *DAMN* if it isn't just scary as all Hell. Anyone looking at doing horror films needs to watch it to see how real suspense and just plain creepiness is done without resorting to buckets of blood.

Brytanica1:I may be completely imagining this, but I seem to remember late, late at night there was one channel that showed these little short horror films.

One was about a guy who worked in a department store, and was obsessed with the mannequins, The eventually come alive and the next day he has been turned into a mannequin also.

There was another one, that had a similiar premise to the Zuni Fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror, about this doll that comes alive and attacks a lady.

Anyone else remember these?

They both sound like pretty famous Twilight Zone tv show episodes. The first one, the person worked in a department store was actually a mannequin. They took turns each week being a real human and had to go back. The one that week had forgotten they were a mannequin and got scared whenever the others started coming to life to get her.

The other was Talky Tina. Jesus, that was a creepy episode. Basically Chucky, but black and white and 30 years before.

Yes. And for a 30 year old made-for-TV movie, it's an amazingly good transfer.

Better yet, the movie still holds up. Watching it now as an adult, I finally picked up on something that went over my head when I was 10. I never understood why Charles Durning's character was so strangely obsessed with Bubba's friendship with the little girl. Now that I have a better understanding of the mindset of a pedophile, it makes a lot more sense. And it makes the scene where he confronts the girl at a Halloween party, where she is wearing adult make-up, even creepier.

The Gremlins definitely terrified me as a young child. I don't think it was in the first movie, but the part where they trap the guy in the giant ball of Gremlins particularly freaked me out. 80s horror movies are the best!

Best part of it was that it's not particularly gory: It's a made-for-TV movie, but *DAMN* if it isn't just scary as all Hell. Anyone looking at doing horror films needs to watch it to see how real suspense and just plain creepiness is done without resorting to buckets of blood.

Yes. And for a 30 year old made-for-TV movie, it's an amazingly good transfer.

Better yet, the movie still holds up. Watching it now as an adult, I finally picked up on something that went over my head when I was 10. I never understood why Charles Durning's character was so strangely obsessed with Bubba's friendship with the little girl. Now that I have a better understanding of the mindset of a pedophile, it makes a lot more sense. And it makes the scene where he confronts the girl at a Halloween party, where she is wearing adult make-up, even creepier.

Is that the one where someone gets it by a combine and someone else in a silo?

Brytanica1:I may be completely imagining this, but I seem to remember late, late at night there was one channel that showed these little short horror films.

One was about a guy who worked in a department store, and was obsessed with the mannequins, The eventually come alive and the next day he has been turned into a mannequin also.

There was another one, that had a similiar premise to the Zuni Fetish doll from Trilogy of Terror, about this doll that comes alive and attacks a lady.

Anyone else remember these?

On the USA Network, on weekends in the late 1980s, sometimes they would air these little film shorts. Sometimes they were scary, sometimes just "ha-ha" scary or ironic. I always assumed they were just airing them when they needed to fill a few minutes between features. I think I remember seeing these there.

The one I remember specifically was about a fisherman who got reeled in himself after picking up a dollar bill that was attached to a hook and line.

Actually, no. When I was little I seriously thought it was Engine Joe. Raised in a very liberal upper middle class neighborhood and probably didn't even know, at six, what "Injun" might mean. But it does look funny now, doesn't it?

Brytanica1:PacManDreaming: Sorry, but that list fails without Mr. Barlow.

It also needs to include the Glick boys.

CSB time,

The scene with the Glick kid outside Mark's window freaked me out so bad as a kid that ny 8 year old self demanded my mom get me new curtains for my bedroom, as the ones I had were very thin, see through white gauzy ones, and I wanted thick ones that I could not see outside or anything see in.

A year or so later, my oldest brother came home from leave, and thought it would be HILARIOUS to put on one of those monster masks and stand outside my window, scratching at the screen. I opened up the curtains, saw him, let out a blood curdling scream and passed out.

My dad ran in, saw me lying there all white, and thought I was dead. A minute later my brother ran in, holding the mask, it took my dad about 2 seconds to figure out what had happened, and he was so freaked out and upset he just hauled off and knocked the shiat out of my brother because he thought he had quite literally scared me to death.

They woke me up, and I woke up still screaming bloody murder.

I did the same exact thing to my little sister, but in my defense I was 12 at the time. She screamed and cried so hard I started sobbing. Bad joke, bad joke . . .

Amazing that show was on primetime TV (pre-cable) for all to see. Also:

gunga galunga:Better yet, the movie still holds up. Watching it now as an adult, I finally picked up on something that went over my head when I was 10. I never understood why Charles Durning's character was so strangely obsessed with Bubba's friendship with the little girl. Now that I have a better understanding of the mindset of a pedophile, it makes a lot more sense. And it makes the scene where he confronts the girl at a Halloween party, where she is wearing adult make-up, even creepier.

I remember that movie playing on USA channel late at night. As a girl, I understood why the officer was so concerned even back then. It was creepy as hell.

Between the horror movies, Rhonda Shear's Up All Night, Howard Stern's tv show, and Duckman, USA network was largely responsible for my first introduction to all things non-kiddy.

Yes. And for a 30 year old made-for-TV movie, it's an amazingly good transfer.

Better yet, the movie still holds up. Watching it now as an adult, I finally picked up on something that went over my head when I was 10. I never understood why Charles Durning's character was so strangely obsessed with Bubba's friendship with the little girl. Now that I have a better understanding of the mindset of a pedophile, it makes a lot more sense. And it makes the scene where he confronts the girl at a Halloween party, where she is wearing adult make-up, even creepier.

Is that the one where someone gets it by a combine and someone else in a silo?